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Re: THEORY: questions

From:Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...>
Date:Saturday, October 27, 2001, 12:44
At 12.44 p.m. 27.10.2001 +0000, you wrote:
>An alternative in English to "cats and dogs" is "stair-rods". It seems >to me that describing heavy rain as some sort of long, thin object >(rope, pipestems, stair-rods) is common, so where does the menagerie >fit into all of this?
I've never heard that before. Personally, when it's pouring, I say 'Thank God, it's pouring!'. Tristan